$ALB's net sales for 1Q16 fell to $865.4MM from $884.4MM in 1Q15, due primarily to divestiture of metal sulfides and minerals-based flame retardants and specialty chemicals businesses and unfavorable currency exchange impacts, partially offset by impact of higher sales volumes, as well as favorable price and mix impacts in certain businesses.

OPEC wants non-members to cut their oil output to keep the oil prices high. The non-OPEC oil volumes are also substantial, so they would really want the non-OPEC nations to curtail their oil production. (Will the non-OPEC countries agree to that?)

$FOXA just entered into a preliminary deal with Sky plc under which it will acquire all shares, or should I say remaining shares for a total value of $23 billion. The sleeping fox catches no poultry, but this fox just caught something that’s a lot bigger than poultry.

$BAS said the company and its affiliated chapter 11 debtors have obtained
court approval of their prepackaged restructuring and recapitalization plan. Among
other things, the Prepackaged Plan equitizes over $800MM of unsecured debt,
eliminates over $60MM in annual cash interest, and completes a new capital
raise of $125MM.

$GE's BoD lifted a quarterly dividend by 4% to $0.24 per outstanding share of its common stock. The dividend is payable on Jan. 25, 2017 to stockholders of record on Dec. 27, 2016. The ex-dividend date is Dec. 22, 2016.

$IRM received approval from UK’s Competition and Markets
Authority (CMA) to sell C21 Data Services Ltd, a legacy Recall asset, to Oasis
Group. The total consideration was immaterial and in line with original
expectations. The transaction closed on December 9, 2016.